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Sarah E. Geraghty

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N.D. Ga. · April 22, 2026

Police Surrounded a Georgia Family's Home Over a Chihuahua — Then Claimed Qualified Immunity for the Arrest Commands That Followed

A federal judge held that a Johns Creek, Georgia officer who repeatedly announced over a PA system that a family was "under arrest" and ordered them out of their home may have seized them under the Fourth Amendment — but that the law was...

DWIGHT SMITH, CATHERINE SMITH, and BRYANT SMITH, Plaintiffs, v. CITY OF JOHNS CREEK, et al., Defendants.